As regular players at Tidy Bingo will know, Tidy is under new ownership now and as such, we need to settle the Tidy Savers promotion and ensure you all get your vouchers that you have saved with us up to and including 31st July 2016.

In total you managed to save £550.25 since November 2015, an impressive amount by all accounts!

On July 5th we made our 5th donation to Help for Heroes, taking the total amount donated at that point to an impressive £2,868.90! As is always the case when we make a donation, we received a letter thanking us just a few days later.

The letter thanks us for the donation and tells of his it is put to use supporting wounded soldiers and their families. If you read on, you will see a scanned copy of the letter.

As you will all know, for some time now we have seen a drop in the number of players in the Tidy Cupboard. This has continued for a while now and David and I have made a decision to change things around a little.

Rather than lose the room completely, something we don’t want to do, we’re going to try and revive it. How we plan to do that may sound a little odd but there is a method in our madness. However, it does mean that from 1st August 2016 the Cupboard is only to be open on the 1st Tuesday of every month.

As regulars at Tidy Bingo will know, the network offers a loyalty reward scheme that sees you earn extra bonuses, cash back etc. as you rise through the ranks. As a little something extra, we’re going to introduce a form of loyalty scheme into the Tidy Cupboard too.

As you will have noticed, player numbers have been dropping of late in the Cupboard and as such, it doesn’t remain viable to keep giving away as many loyalty points as we have been whilst player numbers diminish.

The Which Bingo Award shortlist has been announced today and once again Tidy Bingo has received a nomination. This year there isn’t a Best Boutique Bingo Site, the category we usually find ourselves in. For 2016, we have been nominated as Best Jumpman Gaming Bingo Site and for the first time since we launched, we’re going to put a bit of effort into winning.

It’s not that we don’t want to win, of course it isn’t, but we are always competing with brands we have bigger budgets and more players so it often feels like we are a non-starter. This year however, only five of the brands under the Jumpman Gaming hat have been nominated so our odds of winning are slightly better!

Can you believe it’s nearly March already? It seems like only yesterday that we were running Christmas competitions and rummaging in Santa’s Sack! Anyway, as the year rolls on, it’s time for another Catchphrase competition and your chance to win a selection of Tidy branded goods, maybe some Help For Heroes bits and bobs and even some bonus funds!

This time we’re going to do things a little differently (not much) and will be sending the competition by internal mail, external mail and posting on Facebook. We’re hoping this gets more people involved and who knows, with enough entries – we might even throw in a few extra prizes!

As some of you may know, I’m currently with Slimming World trying to shed a few stone. If you’ve never done this diet before then it’s worth knowing that foods are divided into categories and it is actually the only diet that I have done that I have found really easy to stick to. The only thing that I am not completely comfortable with is the weekly meetings, and whilst I know many get a lot from the meetings – they don’t really do it for me. If any of you guys want to slim along with me – feel free. I lost 6.5lbs in my first week….

That said, I have paid for 10 sessions, so I will do those and then probably just continue alone at home. Anyway, I digress, the reason for this blog post was to share one of the recipes that I made today, one that I really enjoyed and takes hardly any time to make. It’s a free food, so you can eat as many of these as you want.

I thought that I’d sit in the room and watch our biggest every free game take place tonight, the big £1000 jackpot. I wanted to see who were winners, and of course, report the outcome to all the Tidy Bingo players who were otherwise engaged.

In total there were a whopping 4,437 when the game got underway and I was on tenterhooks (as I am sure the players in the room were too).

Just before Christmas we made our fourth donation to the Help For Heroes charity thanks to the your continued support of the Tidy and the Troops game.

To date we have now donated £2238.75 with a further £49.25 raised since we last donated to this great cause. As always when we make a donation, Help For Heroes send us a letter and if you continue reading you will find a scan of the letter received.

There are many things that I love about Tidy and for those of you that know me, you’ll know that it has always been a dream of mine to run my own bingo site. From player, to host, from host to writer and then writer to site owner, it took me ten years to get here but I did.

There have been ups and downs, as our blog readers know, but one of the biggest ups happened this week. Quietly beavering away in my office, the doorbell rings with a delivery…..

Archive for January, 2014

Three promotions have now come to an end across the network; Game On is over and one lucky player called ‘khoy11’ is now the proud owner of a brand new PS4, also the Slot Weekenders and the Twice as Nice promotions have now finished too. Here we take a look at the winners and how we as Tidyers fared in the final weekend rounds.

Firstly there was the Twice As Nice winning weekend, all players who scored a bingo on a double number were in for a share of an impressive 100,000 loyalty points.

What with Christmas, the New Year and preparing all the new and exciting changes at Tidy Bingo, the results for the Newbie Jackpot games have taken a bit of back seat if late. In fact, it was back in November that I last looked and revealed the results to our players! Of course the winners know that they have won but for me, and I hope you too, it’s nice to see how Tidyers have fared in the games.

Originally it was expected that the Newbie Jackpot game would only be available until end of December but because it has been so popular that it is schedule to be available until at least the end of February.

If you haven’t taken a look at the promotional page at Tidy Bingo in a while then we strongly suggest popping along and paying the page a visit. Yesterday things changed and array of new promotions were listed along with details of how to participate. One of those new promotions is the Tidy Lotto, a free to enter draw lottery type draw based around the Wednesday National Lottery game.

You don’t have to buy tickets for the Tidy Lotto, if you have deposited at least £20 in January then it is free to enter for the whole of February. If you do the same in February, you can enter each midweek draw for the whole of March and so on and so forth.

Last weekend saw another round of two of our promotions on the network, Twice as Nice and the Slots Weekender. Here we take a look at how Tidy Bingo players fared, who is walking away with a bit of a bonus, a cash prize or even a hot water bottle. Can you contain your excitement?

All players who won on a double number across the network on Thursday 16th, Friday 17th, and Saturday 18th took home a share of 100,000 loyalty points and there were nine who achieved this task. A total of 11,111 points per winner that equates to £11.11 in bonus funds once redeemed.

Here at Tidy HQ David and I are getting a little excited, February is going to be a really exciting month at Tidy Bingo because we are going to launch our very own standalone room! Towards the end of the month you should see a new room appear in the lobby when you are logged into the site, a room called the Tidy Cupboard.

The Tidy Cupboard will only be open twice a week from 7pm until 11pm on a Tuesday and a Friday but it will be a room only accessible to Tidy players. The room will be hosted for the full four hours by none other than ME! Yes, I’m going to be the host and the last few weeks I’ve spent creating some unique tournament and promotions to focus around our very own room.

If you have recently made a withdrawal from Tidy Bingo then the chances are you will have noticed that doing so has resulted in you losing any bonus funds or loyalty points in your account. We wanted to take the time to explain to our players why this is happening and why, although at first glance it may look like a bad thing it is actually better for players.

A recent change in our Terms and Conditions saw the removal of the 3x deposit + bonus wagering requirements. Although these were never strict anyway and you could withdraw before meeting them but would lose bonus funds / loyalty points if you did, it was all a bit of a ‘faff on’.

As you are probably well aware there are a number of promotions running alongside each other at Tidy Bingo at the moment, networked promotions. Twice As Nice is one of those promotions and the Slots Weekender is the other. We have now been sent the full list of winners for the weekend just past so we’d like a virtual drum roll please as we look at the Tidyers who got lucky.

Twice As Nice is a promotion whereby all players who win bingo on a double number (i.e. 22, 33, 44 etc.) all share 100,000 in loyalty points. There were 14 players who managed to win on a double this weekend and each will now take home 7,142 loyalty points. At an exchange rate of 1,000 for £1 this means they each have over £7 in bonus funds.

Yesterday on Facebook we hinted at an impromptu competition for our players and here it is, as promised! We’re playing a little Tidy Catchphrase today and all you have to do is be a depositing player at the site and email us the six correct answers, along with your username to team@tidybingo.com to be in with a chance to win. All correct entries will be entered into a draw that will take place on Saturday morning (10th January) for the chance to win the Swarovski Elements Earrings, Necklace and Bracelet set as shown on the Facebook page.

We’re doing Roy Walker proud with the Tidy Bingo version of the game but can you ‘say what you see’ for your chance to win the prize on offer?

Forgive my lackadaisical attitude over the last few days; I am still trying to get back into the swing of work after the festive season! Part of that festive season was the Santa’s Sack promotion and I have to say, I had great fun running the whole thing. It didn’t matter that for 24 nights I was burning the midnight oil to draw winners and post the next day’s competition, I absolutely loved it and I really hope that you did too.

I’ve got my thinking hat on now for a love themed promotion so keep your eyes out for that next month. Of course if you have any suggestions, feel free to email them in to team@tidybingo.com or leave them as a comment on Facebook or here on the blog. However, before we move from January to February I thought I’d run through the list of winners and their prizes from the Santa’s Sack promotion.

Last night the big money Happy 2014 jackpot game took place, a game that boasted £1,014 the Community Jackpot to share amongst the 3TG, 2TG and 1TG losers and £1,000 for the three 90 ball winners. There were 213 players who took part in the game and of those 121 players too a prize of at least £5.75.

Of the 213 players who had tickets for the game, 32 were Tidy Bingo players. Of the 32 Tidyer’s who had tickets, half won a prize of at least £5.75